Description: Solid ionic conductors have a wide range of applications and new research results are becoming available at an ever increasing rate. The book discusses and reviews our present knowledge in some critical areas. Some of the important papers are given below: Some Highlights:

Description: This "state-of-the-art" volume presents the new developments in fundamental research and in industrial applications of Molten Salts. Special attention is placed on recent developments of special topics such as Electrodeposition of Refractory Metals (Niobium, Molybdenum), and Organic Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Molten Salts.

Description: Rare earth oxides, rare earth compounds and rare earth elements find a wide range of applications in metals, glasses, ceramics and electronics. Demands for high-purity separated rare earth oxides and metals with a purity of up to 99.999% is growing. The present conference was designed to discuss the needs of the materials science community and to present advances in the field.

Description: Halide glasses are a new group of optical materials, with great potential for various applications, e.g. for fiber optic waveguides

Description: I. TECHNIQUES . II. d DOPING . III. QUANTUM WELLS . IV. HYDROGEN IN SEMICONDUCTORS . V. BOUND EXCITONS . VI. IMPURITIES IN SILICON . VII. IMPURITIES IN Ge AND GexSi1-x. VIII. IMPURITIES IN COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS . IX. DX CENTRES .

Description: Theory and experimental techniques of acousto-optic devices were developed for the purpose of modulating and deflecting the laser beams. By the end of the sixties very important results on acoustic beam steering, acoustic interaction in anisotropic media and efficiency and bandwidth of acoustooptic deflectors and modulators had been published. Since then varieties of acousto-optic devices have evolved with many applications in diverse fields.

Description: This book contains a series of lectures given in a Summer School held in Aussois (France) in September 1989. It offers a global perspective on the current state-of-the-art in the rapidly emerging field of metallic multilayered structures.

Description: Part 1 . 1. PREMARTENSITIC BEHAVIOUR. 2. TRANSFORMATION THERMODYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS. 3. Transformations in ferrous Alloys. 4. BAINITE TRANSFORMATIONS . 5. NON-FERROUS ALLOYS. 6. MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN CERAMICS. Part 2 . 7. SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS. 8. COPPER-BASED SME ALLOYS . 9. TITANIUM-NICKEL SME ALLOYS. 10.FERROUS SME ALLOYS. 11. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS .